Week of 12/12/05

Hexion Specialty Chemicals, Inc. has announced a recent offer to purchase the global ink and adhesive resins business of Akzo Nobel.

The Dow Chemical Co. has announced the appointment of Jim Fitterling to the position of business vice president for Polyethylene.

Asymtek® recently announced that it has been awarded a Global Technology Award in the Dispensing category for its innovative Spectrum™ S-820 Series Dispensing System.

The Henkel Group has announced the acquisition of a majority stake in Huawei Electronics Co. Ltd., Lianyungang, in the Chinese province of Yiangsu.

DistriPakUSA™ - a new trade show dedicated to the industrial, shipping room supplies and foodservice packaging distribution channel that will launch Oct. 4-7, 2006 at Chicago's McCormick Place - has announced two new endorsements.

Week of 12/05/05

Arkema has announced the successful commission of a new high-content ethylene-vinyl acetate (HC EVA) copolymer production unit at its Balan Facility in Ain, France.

Week of 11/28/05

Dow Automotive and Volkswagen recently received an Innovation Award from the Society of Plastics Engineers International (SPE) in the Process/Assembly/Enabling Technologies category for the bonded hybrid front-end carrier, which recently went into series production in Europe on the new Polo.